"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"I am a writer. I do not have to be polite. I do not have to be nice. I do not have to be politically correct. I have to be true to my imagination."

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

"The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

"To be a writer is to be an outsider. It is to be someone who stands on the edges of society, looking in, and then reporting what he sees."